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Keiko Ochiai
Keiko Ochiai () is a Japanese author, bookstore owner, radio personality, and feminist. Biography She was born in Tokyo out-of-wedlock to parents who encouraged her to develop hobbies considered "unusual" for a girl, including carpentry. While at Meiji University, she joined the English Speaking Society and became its first female officer. She graduated in 1967. Ochiai was a radio celebrity in the 1970s and often DJ-ed under the name "Lemon-chan." She gained popularity through her novel advice show, in which listeners could call in and describe their problems in order to receive her advice in real time. She has also written about jazz. She published a widely-acclaimed series of essays about women in Japanese cities titled ''A Spoonful of Happiness'' (''Suppun Ippai no Shiawase'') based on her newspaper columns. In 1982, she wrote ''The Rape'' (''Za reipu''), about the lawsuit of the rape of an independent young career woman (''kyariaūman)'' by her ex-boyfriend''.'' In the novel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legitimacy (family Law)
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, ''illegitimacy'', also known as ''bastardy'', has been the status of a child born outside marriage, such a child being known as a bastard, a love child, a natural child, or illegitimate. In Scots law, the terms natural son and natural daughter bear the same implications. The importance of legitimacy has decreased substantially in Western countries since the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the declining influence of conservative Christian churches in family and social life. Births outside marriage now represent a large majority in many countries of Western Europe and the Americas, as well as in many former European colonies. In many Western-influenced cultures, stigma based on parents' marital status, and use of the word ''bastard'', are now widely consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
